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What you need to know about the virus in China "2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)"

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jhaider said:
Wow, that's a quite a combination. Have you started some isolation workflows at home? We're trying to figure that out for when my wife's parental leave is over and she's back to her clinical, in-patient, and ICU rotations.



While I'll halfheartedly believe no actual cases in some isolated islands, of those obviously DPRK is lying and I doubt there is sufficient remaining public health infrastructure to support reporting in Yemen (thanks, Mister Bone Saw) or South Sudan (for internal reasons). The country in that list that really stands out is Iran's northern neighbor, Turkmenistan. No other government has been as reckless in blatantly endangering its population as that dictatorship:
https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...nistan-has-banned-use-of-the-word-coronavirus

I bet their dictator would get along famously with this...person:
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Thread ban , political and in the worse sense . Precisely what I'm trying to avoid.
 
La curva que no disminuye: los arrestos y multas se mantienen al alza
[Spanish] https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/de...s-coronavirus-estado-alarma_0_1343566883.html

The curve that does not decrease: arrests and fines are kept on the rise
https://translate.google.es/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/detenciones-arrestos-multas-coronavirus-estado-alarma_0_1343566883.html

[ The proposed sanction minutes this Sunday peaked in two weeks and arrests for breach of confinement exceeded 200 for the second time... ]

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Update

More and more people are seen on the street walking where I live. And minimal purchases as an excuse or nothing. It is the same as always, for a few others we suffer the consequences. Lucky that the percentage of affected is small here. Many use the mask as an ornament. They have not bothered to know how to put it on and take it off. You see a few with it on your chin or on your forehead. Many speak with the mobile, they are unable to leave it at home for a while.
 
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It's good to see folks die trying but,

Please leave the drugs to doctors and pharmacist. They are liable if they try (under patient's consent and closely monitored of course). You're on your own if you try and die.

Do what's so physical and obvious, wash your hands, wear your mask, keep distance. Be extremely mindful of what and whom you've come contact with, and do not touch the T-zone before washing hands.

That'd be more than adequate.
 
So Sweden has significantly more activity after the pandemic is declared? Yet their trajectories don't seem to be appreciably different from other countries - at least not appreciably worse...

Will be interesting to see how that effects future statistics for sure.
 
Germany has more as well, makes me suspicious of the data quality. I've seen a lot more people walking about locally that I would normally, on a standard walk I do, but they are obeying the UK rules, and getting exercise. So pedestrian movement is up around me, but the rules are being obeyed.
 
maty said:
La Justicia eleva a 800 más los muertos por coronavirus en Castilla-La Mancha [Spain Region] respecto a la cifra oficial
[Spanish] https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/justicia-castilla-mancha-muertos-coronavirus_0_1343566605.html

Justice brings to 800 more deaths from coronavirus in Castilla-La Mancha [Spain Region] compared to the official figure
https://translate.google.es/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/justicia-castilla-mancha-muertos-coronavirus_0_1343566605.html

[ The Superior Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha has reported the burial licenses issued by the civil registries of the region due to the situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing in 1,921 those signed, a figure higher than the 1,132 deceased officers registered by the statistics offered by the Ministry of Health regarding the Autonomous Community. This figure represents 69.7% more than the official figures... ]

[ Deaths grow 96% in March

The data received shows that deaths in Castilla-La Mancha in March 2020 have increased by 96.3% compared to those that occurred in the same period of the previous year.

Specifically, the civil registries of Castilla-La Mancha issued 3,319 burial licenses last March when 1,691 deaths were registered in March 2019.

And of that number of 3,319, in 1,921 burial licenses, 57.9%, is listed as the cause of death COVID-19 or compatible suspicion, referencing as suspicion those cases in which said probability or suspicion is included in the medical certification or there are reasons for this due to concurrent pulmonary pathological processes compatible with said cause... ]

I am afraid that in other countries it will happen the same or, I fear, much worse than in Spain.
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https://www.lainformacion.com/asunt...-muertos-registro-no-cuentan-sanidad/6557400/

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[ Castilla La Mancha has become the 'Spanish Wuhan'. A region with a little over two million inhabitants has 10,602 infections and 1,142 deaths, according to Health. But, the civil registry reports could double the figure. The entity's data shows that deaths in March 2020 have increased 96.3% compared to the same period of the previous year, and that 57.9% of these have been safely or probably attributed to Covid-19.

The first fatality in the area was detected on March 12. It was an 82-year-old woman based in Albacete who died when only 115 cases had been identified throughout the autonomy. The curve grew fast. At six days, 46 were deceased; on March 20, 62; and this Monday, 1,132. Thus, the CCAA has become the second with a higher proportion of deaths, only below Madrid... ]
 
Depending on what 'public places' entails (as opposed to private places), the increased activity may just be a substitute for activity in another similar category that may not be counted e.g. gastronomy, sport/fitness.
 
RayDunzl said:
Wihout trying to cast aspersions on any perceived ethnicity...

Living clean may leave you more with more susceptibility to pathogens you hadn't previously encountered:

https://www.google.com/search?q=doe...ome..69i57.19590j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

True or not, I don't know. You asked for "thoughts".

An earlier post noted the "wealthy" areas getting hammered. They, at least from outward appearances, are "clean".

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On the other hand, areas with more direct links (air travel) to and from the source (apparently China) appear to fare worse than those with less contact.

A difficult puzzle to solve. Too many moving parts for me.
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The more wealthy likely have higher rates of international travel (and also associate more with other people who do as well) and thus likely face a greater risk of infection.
 
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We are all experiencing events of unprecedented magnitude. A disease that knows no boundaries. strikes rich and poor and has us or some of us, reassess our lives and even what we believe are our rights.

Am I one of the few to find this tracking, dangerous, dystopian, scary? I knew it but being reminded of how much a private, commercial entity knows about us, scares the bejesus out of me. I find this beyond unsettling. Today this is for good, for our health , to track us so that this pandemic can become less lethal... When will that stop, be curtailed , be controlled? This data about our whereabouts, our life, our privacy? What will they make of this and similar data? Keep it for the good of us?
 
FrantzM said:
Am I one of the few to find this tracking, dangerous, dystopian, scary? I knew it but being reminded of how much a private, commercial entity knows about us, scares the bejesus out of me. I find this beyond unsettling. Today this is for good, for our health , to track us so that this pandemic can become less lethal... When will that stop, be curtailed , be controlled? This data about our whereabouts, our life, our privacy? What will they make of this and similar data? Keep it for the good of us?
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It's Google. Google maps, Waze, they have many means to get "anonymous" user info about our moving around. That's nothing new, in any case.

There are several articles about this very thing by the way. For example
https://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-coronavirus-surveillance-new-powers-2020-3
 
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We are all experiencing events of unprecedented magnitude. A disease that knows no boundaries. strikes rich and poor and has us or some of us, reassess our lives and even what we believe are our rights.

Am I one of the few to find this tracking, dangerous, dystopian, scary? I knew it but being reminded of how much a private, commercial entity knows about us, scares the bejesus out of me. I find this beyond unsettling. Today this is for good, for our health , to track us so that this pandemic can become less lethal... When will that stop, be curtailed , be controlled? This data about our whereabouts, our life, our privacy? What will they make of this and similar data? Keep it for the good of us?
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Just leave your phone at home mate. The equation is simple privacy or convenience.

In a world where most software is 'free' one trades one for the other.

Get a flip phone , stay off line and pay cash for things . Live local.
 
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